Hurricane season is only a month away -- don't wait until the last minute to do your fear-mongering!
Unfortunately, Scrooge-like hurricane scientists are still saying "Bah, humbug!" to the Gaian faithful:
The ferocity of last year's season gave ammunition to a growing chorus of voices that says humans and their greenhouse gas-spewing cars and factories could be making hurricanes more destructive.
But it did nothing to convince a hard core of hurricane researchers who insist there's no evidence that people are responsible for the recent intensity, and growing numbers, of tropical cyclones.
One of the scientists is Neil Frank, former head of the National Hurricane Center, who sums up the situation as follows: "These same numerical models that I can't put faith in for a two-week forecast, we're told can be accurate out 200 years. Ridiculous."
Wait 'til sit-com developer and world-renowned scientist Laurie David hears about this.
Posted by floridacracker at May 3, 2006 08:15 AMThe sky is falli...er...cloudy...er...clear! The end is nigh!
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at May 3, 2006 08:45 AMGlobal warming...er...cooling...er...climate change will kill us all very soon.
Posted by: Donnah at May 3, 2006 10:42 AMThe appendices of Michael Crighton's very excellent "State Of Fear" provide more fact than the alarmists apparently care to review. It's just one source of many available. As an aside, I've always wondered what happened to the glaciers that carved the Yosemite valley. Were the indigenous peoples burning coal and driving SUVs way back when? That musta been one hella global warming.
Posted by: mike at May 3, 2006 04:15 PMFreakin' Ice Age and all the little ice ages. Damn cave people and their campfires.
Posted by: Donnah at May 3, 2006 11:03 PM